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ABOVE: A horassad mother, British-born Mrs Mavis Brands, loft her five children in the American Em- bassy recently and vanished. Police took the children to a welfare home. A letter for them was received of the Embassy from their mother saying this war the only way she could be sure of getting them home to their grandmother in St Louis, Missouri.

Mrs Brandl's American husband has been a patient in the Illinois State mental home since 1958, Six weeks ago she brought the children to England to Sho sought national assistance make a new start. after ten days and the family were sent to a welfare homa in Colchester. The Embassy has also been trying to help her through an American relief society. Picture shows:--The five waifs: left to right) Deborah (aged 6), Russell (14), Mark (2), May (13) and Darlene (9).

ABOVE:

For centuries, the quail of Europe have fled from the northern winter, each year flying south in their hundreds of thousands across the Mediter- rancan into Egypt, whore they also mate and breed. But each year also massive numbers of them hava been captured by the Egyptian peasantry, in huge nots erected on the sands. But after five years of annual requests, the UAR government has now given in to ornithological socioties all over Europej who have been pointing out the danger of the species tho nots become bigger and becoming oxtinct as

From now on there is a legal liniit more efficient.

to the size of the nets that can be erected (90 ft. square), they must be at least 500 yards from the there must be at least twenty yards shore, and between them. Picture shows--Top: à quail caught And, bottom, a man. in one of the seashore nets. and his wife catching quail at Port Saidi

ABOVE: Now being used in NATO naval exarcises on this sido of the Atlantic ore, those "Flying Saucers"-the nickname given to the U.S. Navy's twin- engined Tracer reconnoissance aircraft. Nickname derives from the hugo, flattened, rador dome above, the fusologo, which gives it an immensely extended range of "vision." Built by Grumman Aircraft, the planes are flying from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga..

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ABOVE: Manchester City's Gorman-born goalkeeper Bert Trautmann accepté congratulations from his Alsation Mitzi recently, after hearing he had been selected to captain the Football League against the Irish League this month. Farmer prisoner of wor Trautmann, long-recognised as one of the best goal- keepers in Britain, though this is his first 'reprosen- tative honour, has been battling against a bad-luck jinx almost ever since he established himself as City's goalkeeper on the retirement of his great his predecessor Frank Swift. On the one occasion team roached the Cup Final, he was injured and played in pain throughout the match-to discover ot the end that he had broken his necka Then, after he had fought back to regain his place in the sido, his small son diod. Soon after, he started recaiving a séries of, vindictive poison pen letters. Now at last, with the news of his League selection, the tide of luck seems to be changing for the German who made Britain his bome.

ABOVE: Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Turner, USAF, addressing the Institute of Biologists on "The problem of astronaut selection" at the Royal Geographical Society. He was taking part in a two-day symposium organised by the "Institute on. "The Biology of Space Travol.".

U.S. orders for Asian

jeeps allies

Tokyo, Oct. 4.

The United States has placed o US$12,900,000 order in Japan for 9,979 jeeps to be allocated to Southeast Asian allied nations, it was announced yesterday,

The order was made on luxe, and 125,000 Yen for the September 30 through the ordinary models.

A leading British music examiner is to arrange a scholarship in Britain Japan procurement agency of

for a pale, frail, 10-year-old Chinese boy violinist. Says the examiner: "The boy is a genius.

"Soldem have I heard such roundings night rob the world' playing as his. In all my years of musle of his talent.

of teaching I have never mot ai child in Britain or anywhere else who is a patch on him,

New mechanical clude a two-stage

features In- carburettor

the U.S. forces In Japan with the Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- and synero-mesh transmission. tries, Reorganised,

The top speed with the 55-hp The vehicles will cost about engine is 75 miles per hour or US$1,300 each.

an increase of 20 per cent over Delivery is to be made be-the former model--UPI &

AFP. fore September, 1982,

separate contract for

Two years ago Lee Pan-hon made his debut in Singapore's When Professor Platts had Victoria Memorial Hall. The A heard the boy' play, at an audi- audience stopped applauding | US$870,000 worth of spare parts Lion arranged by a Singapore only to let him play encores. musle lencher. He said: "I must

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"To watch him is Иke looking through the wrong end of a nerotge a scholarship in Britain Baya Leo Pan-kont 'telescope at a genius playing." for the boy. "It will be my first time I get mad with practising.

The examiner is Professor E, Platts, of London's Royal Col- Jege of Munie and he heard, the boy, 4ft tall Lee Pan-hon, during a visit to Singapore.

DIPHTHERIA has already been signed, aft

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OUTBREAK Nissan Motors today unveiled compact, Bluebird passenger.

Djakarta, Oct. 4.: A severe diphtheria outbreak The new model, equipped of epidemic proportions has “Bai thon, (hly musla'is the olther within. BB-lo, or 40-bp occurred: in: Bláicassar, South only thing that I can call my engine, has beot given con- Celobes, the Wearing grubby shorts and own. It is the only thing that siderable power increases com- agency reported today, ta Professor Platts was told that

| prédocéssors The report wald many people Lee Pan-hon lived in one of nothing eles, he perched on a will one day help me to lake pared with Leir

on the out Singapore's ahabbiest China-poapbox and reeled off denso my mother away from the with a 13-hp or 34-hp engine living in villigomr

and give her some of town streets. It was suggested tunes, e, takings helped his slurs

The prices have remained, the skirts of the Colebes largest that the misery of these sur parents to keep the home going. of the joys of life,"

same: -709,000-Yon for theƐ de xitý fund' been stricken.UPI,

task the moment I get home," I ach and I am ifred and the 1901 version of Its popular

Lee Fan-bol, whose name wonder whero all this muste means "arms of Iron," began will lead me, playing his battered, baby-slza violin on Singapore's pavements ax a tockler of five.

'ARMS OF IRON'

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Refreshment stand goes

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October 1935

·SPECIAL committeo. consisting of Mr F. H... Loseby, Mr Tan Shậu kin Mr J. M. Wong and Miss Dorothy Brazier presented Government with a report on the Multani problem in Hongkong.

They called for a full en- quiry into the sale and adoption of Chinese girls, the legal, moral and social consequences, and the best method of avoiding the dangers likely to follow hastening by official action of the changes of thought and custom now taking place in Hongkong."

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The committed urged that |an Official Guardian-should be appointed for all children sold, given away or adopted and thé Guardian should be associated with a committee including. one European and one Chinese Indy.

He should be able to enforce his rights as guardian in A summary way either in the Supreme Court, or before a magistrate.

The

Throa fires broke out in

Hongkong yesterday.

guardianship should The strangest was the bum-last until the child is 21. ing of a soft drink shed on the Muitsal, c. girls bought and beach of Deep Water Boy at used ng domestic servants. 3.40 pm.

should be secured economic Soft drink bottica burst wages or higher. This should ilke firecrackers in a series of be by law (to benefit un-

registered girls).

explosions.

In suitable cases, the Offe

Guardian should Co

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The blaze raged on for а full 20 minutes until the whole shed was reduced to aches. Three Are engines rushed Lo the beach but were unable to operate with charitable or save the hut..

ganisations in the Colony to At 8 pm grass on the hillside assist the reunion of families across the street from the divided by hardship or great Chung Sing Pavilion

Ken-francial stress, but no public nedy Town caught fire, causing moneys should be spent by the great consternation among the

neighbourhood for fear of an-Government-in-redeeming other big squatter fire,

children.

Several fire engines arrived. The Hongkong Government The fire burnt itself out.

should ald the movement: to- A1 pm a stone house inwards the equality of Chinese Holy Cross Village, Shaukiwan,

was the scene of a fire when women by every legitimate

a pigsty burnt up.

Formosa planes

means.

The University, the schools And the hospitals should be nyked to cooperate. The true Multani system is a protection

drop moon cakes against, and not a pathway to

over mainland

Tapel, Oct. 4.

A large quantity of cales are being air dropped by Nationalist planes for people

on the

prostitution,

The prevention of the sale of girls for prostitution is, a distinct problem. The Multadi - System is not used for re cruiting prostitutes,

There is no evidence of China mainland slavery, among Chinese males. to mark the CineEC Moon The ultimate goal should be |Festival which falls tomorrow, approval or disapproval of the Military Information Ser-overy proposed adoption or vice reported today.

other transaction before ita

Milltary sources said psycho-

on completion. This course is local warfare workers compatible with Chinese cus- Quemoy знего also landing tom because approval by the packages of moon cakes and Head of the family and village other anti-Communist leaflets across the Formoen Stults to the Chinese coastal areas by means of balloons.-Router.

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